Robotics

By utkaaktu
  • 1500

    France is amazed by Leonardo da Vinci's mechanized lion. When the king visited Milan, this mechanism moved and represented the state's coat of arms.

  • John Napier develops a rudimentary computing device.

  • Inspired by Napier's work, Wilhelm Schickard of Germany creates a calculating machine that works with six-digit decimal numbers.

  • Pascal lays out his vision of a mechanized machine capable of adding and subtracting numbers on its own.

  • At the World Exhibition in Paris, Pafnuty Chebyshev presents a walking machine whose movements are similar to the steps of a horse. This mechanism gives a new impetus to the development of robotics technologies.

  • The dream of wireless city electrification led Nikola Tesla to invent a coil that produces high-frequency voltage. The principle of operation explained the nature of electricity and the possibilities of its use.

  • Tesla creates an asynchronous motor powered by an alternating current network. Relying on the difference in the speed of movement and the direction of rotation of the magnetic fields of the stator and rotor, the rotation of the rotor is achieved.

  • Nikola Tesla patents an electrodynamic induction lamp, which has a number of competitive advantages over similar devices of the time.

  • Tesla's scientific thought led him to discover the world's first remote control. It was installed on a boat, the propeller and rudder of which were controlled by radio waves.

  • Charles Macauley creates a machine that finds solutions to logical problems.

  • The first mention of the word "robot" (robota in Czech) is in the play "RUR". The play was written by Karel Čapek in 1920 ("RUR" in Czech: Rossumovi univerzalna roboti, "Rossum's universal robots").

  • Creation of an industrial conveyor robot for painting surfaces.

  • Presentation of a mechanism for controlling machines using a magnetic recording device.

  • Active development of mechanical manipulators that copied the movements of human hands for implementation in radioactive production.

  • An artificial hand, the Rancho Arm, comparable to a human hand, is presented at an exhibition in California.

  • Invention of the world's first microprocessor.

  • The robotics market experienced a major growth spurt, driven by the commercialization of Japanese high-tech robots.

  • While developing a robot vacuum cleaner, Mark Thorpe gets the idea to organize robot fights.

  • Electrolux presented the Trilobite robot vacuum cleaner on the BBC, which moved around the room on its own and collected dust.

  • Invention of the flexible FOLED display, which used flexible plastic (or metal plate) as a substrate.

  • marked the beginning of the tablet era, which was pioneered by the Microsoft Tablet PC, the first tablet computer.

  • QRIO is released. A children's robot that has the foundation of adaptive behavior, can balance on one leg, speaks more than 60,000 words, and dances.

  • Four years after the invention of the Trilobite robot vacuum cleaner, Electrolux releases the second generation of this model.

  • Military robotics became famous for the invention of PackBot with the REDOWL system.

  • NEC System Technologies Laboratory presented a robot taster. In addition to being able to recognize a product, it gave advice on pairing snacks and drinks in less than half a minute.

  • Testing of the test police robot R-BOT 001, conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Perm.

  • The European Council for Nuclear Research developed a project for the Large Hadron Collider, designed to study the products of high-speed collisions of protons and heavy ions.

  • Creation of the first biological 3D printer capable of recreating the architecture of body tissue at the micro level.

  • NASA's Robonaut 2 robot was delivered to the ISS

  • Military research and development in the field of explosives led to the discovery of the most powerful explosive to date - hexanitrohexaazaisovucitane.

  • A Japanese-made robot astronaut arrives at the International Space Station.

  • Wireless Electricity. The first successful tests of a coil generating an electric field. This invention allows charging electronic devices within a radius of 2.5 meters, freeing them from a socket and wires.

  • A real revolution in electric automobile manufacturing was the presentation of the Tesla Model X SUV, which can travel 402 km without recharging. And acceleration to 100 km/h is achieved in 3 seconds.

  • Medical research aimed at helping people with cognitive impairments led to the creation of the Eatwell Assistive Tableware collection. It is designed to take into account all the eating habits of people with Alzheimer's disease.

  • At ICRA 2023, Canadian startup 1X's humanoid robots burst onto the scene